Student loans are back, US travel is whack, and, AI, please, step back

学生贷款卷土重来,美国旅游惨淡,人工智能,请退一步。

The Indicator from Planet Money

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2025-04-25

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It's ... Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at the some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news. On today's episode, we investigate falling foreign travel to the U.S., why student loan default collections are back, and why maaaaaaaybe being so friendly with our AI chatbot pals has a cost. Related episodes: Economists take on student loan forgiveness Is AI overrated? (Apple / Spotify) Is AI underrated? (Apple / Spotify) For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • NPR. This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

  • I'm Darian Woods.

  • And I'm joined today by the wonderful Waylon Wong.

  • Oh, hey, that's me.

  • And the amazing Adrienne Ma.

  • And I guess by default, that leaves me.

  • So we've been doing this a long time.

  • And, you know, we have such a great bond together.

  • I was thinking we should have a name, like the ChatGP3.

  • That's good, right?

  • If we were sponsored by OpenAI.

  • Thank you for not saying no. The actual response from ChatGPT was, that name is fire emoji.

  • Really?

  • Of course it would say that.

  • In any matter, we combined our as-of-now unnamed collective for one reason today.

  • It's Indicators of the Week.

  • Indicators of the Week.

  • It is that show where we quantify the world of business and tech and financial things.

  • On today's episode, we've got plummeting travel to the U.S.,

  • more student loan repayments, and survival AI chatbots.